The study is oriented by two goals. First, it aims to measure the magnitude of the tariff used by the European Union on the agricultural products. Second, it tries to identify the existence of tariff discrimination among the groups of agricultural products in the European tariff set. The hypothesis is that there is tariff discrimination in the EU agricultural tariff schedule. Theoretical and empirical studies have already suggested that there are groups of products particularly protected by the EU agricultural tariffs. The present work has one main contribution: the discussion related to the effects of using different prices to the conversion of EU specific and composed tariffs. The study points to certain sets of agricultural products targeted by the EU trade policy: especially meat, sugar, residues and waste from food industries; and, at second, tobacco, meat preparations, cereals, cocoa and preparations, cereal preparations, dairy products, and organic quimical products.
tariff; European Union; agricultural trade
